AC9E8LA08 – Year 8 English: Language for expressing and developing ideas

This Content Descriptor from Year 8 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the vocabulary of academic report writing on a topic; for example, the use of words such as “evidence”, “consequence”, “contradiction” and “acknowledge” for the topic “sustainability”
• 2 comparing and contrasting vocabulary choices in academic texts, considering how they are used to create precise information or convey abstract ideas

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